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Installation of Pentaho Data Integration and Database Driver

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Installation of Pentaho Data Integration and Database

Driver
This document provides details about installing Pentaho Data Integration and a database driver.
You will need the database driver for MySQL to complete the guided tutorial and assignment.

This document, and guided tutorial and assignment has the screenshots of version pdi-ce-
7.0.0.0-25 (the current version number is 9.3).

Installing Pentaho Data Integration


You should install the community edition of Pentaho Data Integration. The latest stable version
(9.3) is available here https://community.hitachivantara.com/s/article/data-integration-kettle
(deprecated)

To install Pentaho, you should follow the steps below. It is highly recommended that you use
the community edition as the instructions in this document follow the community edition
interface.

 Go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/latest/download
OR https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Pentaho-9.3/

 Download the pdi-ce-9.3.0.0-342.zip


https://webwerks.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pentaho/Pentaho-9.3/client-
tools/pdi-ce-9.3.0.0-428.zip

 Unzip the downloaded zip file to any folder.

 Windows users should copy the folder data-integration to the folder C:\Program Files\
Pentaho.

To ensure that the installation worked, you should launch Pentaho Data Integration.

 Run the file Spoon.bat by double clicking on it. You may want to create a shortcut to the
spoon.bat file so starting data integration is easier. If you get a permission error or cannot
execute the bat file, you should right click and select “Run as Administrator”.

 After you launch Pentaho Data Integration, you will see the Welcome window (Figure 1) and
then the Spoon designer (Figure 2).

 Exit Spoon before installing the database driver file in the next part of the instructions.
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Figure 1: Pentaho Data Integration Welcome Window

Figure 2: Spoon Opening Window

Installing JDBC Drivers


In this guided tutorial and assignment, you will need to connect to MySQL server. Before you
can connect to a database, you must install the appropriate database driver. Pentaho uses the
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) to connect to databases.
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You need to install the JDBC driver for the specific version of the DBMS that you previously
installed.

 For MySQL, the JDBC driver is “mysql-connector-java-5.1.41-bin” OR “mysql-connector-


java-8.0.15.zip”. You can download it using this page: The current updated version is
mysql-connector-java-8.0.15.zip. You may use the older version mysql-connector-java-5.1.41-
bin if this new version does not work for your specific mySQL version.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j

For the .zip file, the unzipped folder has many files. You only need to copy the mysql-
connector-java-8.0.15.jar file.

For Windows users, after downloading the JDBC file, you should copy the file to the following
folder:

C:\Program Files\Pentaho\data-integration\lib

For Mac and Linux users (including Oracle Virtual Box), you should copy the driver to the data-
integration/lib directory.

After copying the JDBC file to the specified folder, you should restart Pentaho Data Integration.

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Further documentation:

Need help installing PDI? Access the installation guides for the following operations systems:

Windows: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/white-paper/pentaho-community-
edition-installation-guide-for-windows-whitepaper.pdf

Linux: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/white-paper/pentaho-ce-installation-guide-
on-linux-operating-system-whitepape

More Resources
Pentaho Data Integration documentation
Pentaho Data integration video tutorials

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